YouTube Clip of the Week: “Suicide at Niagra Falls”
Depression is a deadly disease. Most people with depression will act suicidal at one time or another — although not to the extreme that this poor sod does. He probably thought that killing himself was his only alternative. One thing that depression and the down phase of bipolar disorder does is that it severely narrows your decision-making process so that you can’t see any of the choices around you. And if you are affected by other symptoms of depression like sleep deprivation, chronic aches and pains and all-encompassing fatigue, then your thinking processes are even more narrowed.
Depression is like putting horse blinkers on so that you can only see one direction and not everything else around you.
Many depressives make wrong life choices in diet, exercise, sleep and chemicals that don’t kill you as quickly as a plunge ten feet from the edge of Niagra Falls. They wind up killing themselves in a far slower fashion than this fellow did.
I did do some Internet research tryng to discover who this fellow was, if he left a note behind or if his body was ever found, but I haven’t been able to find anything. Niagra Falls is so powerful that a body can never be found, such as with the case of a stunt gone wrong when, in June 5, 1990 a man named Jesse Sharp paddled over the edge in a kayak. His kayak was found, but he wasn’t. It’s thought he wasn’t trying to commit suicide, because he had dinner reservations for later that night.
In other words, if you feel depressed, get help. And don’t go to Niagra Falls.
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